From other threads it's seemed some people from small teams feel left out at Nationals because they don't have enough people for relays. How about not counting the relay points for the Small Team Awards and letting the small teams pool swimmers for relays. Pooled relays would not count for records or Top Ten but could win medals.
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Perhaps people could foprm a relay and swim it anyways, keeping in mind that later on it will be DQ'd, when it's parsed out that they don't belong to the same team.
Or, there could be an additional, exhibition event at nationals, freeform relays or what not, and let people team up whichever way they want and swim a relay that way.
I don't know if there's room for an extra event at nationals, and exhibition event at that, when meet hosts are often faces with having to bend over backwards to make reasonable timelines. I think it might be a very hard sell to the meet host and the championship comittee.
OTOH, just like some of our local meets have occasional non-scoring just for fun events, like 'Fun Fin relay", it could be fun. In this relay we let people wear fins and there's no 15m rule, so if they want to put on 4 foot fins and try to swim a whole 50 under water, they get a chance.
Perhaps people could foprm a relay and swim it anyways, keeping in mind that later on it will be DQ'd, when it's parsed out that they don't belong to the same team.
Or, there could be an additional, exhibition event at nationals, freeform relays or what not, and let people team up whichever way they want and swim a relay that way.
I don't know if there's room for an extra event at nationals, and exhibition event at that, when meet hosts are often faces with having to bend over backwards to make reasonable timelines. I think it might be a very hard sell to the meet host and the championship comittee.
OTOH, just like some of our local meets have occasional non-scoring just for fun events, like 'Fun Fin relay", it could be fun. In this relay we let people wear fins and there's no 15m rule, so if they want to put on 4 foot fins and try to swim a whole 50 under water, they get a chance.
